Wednesday, October 17, 2007
More Thoughts On The New Kylie Song ‘2 Hearts’
5:12PM Jess McGuire | So it’s been roughly twenty-four hours since we posted the new Kylie video for the song ‘2 Hearts’. In this massive amount of time, we’ve managed to listen to the single a further, oh, THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EIGHT TIMES on our iPod, and we are completely and utterly obsessed by it. It is a swaggering, Goldfrapp-esque hot bitch of a song, and we cannot get enough.
Relive it, please, and make sure your opinion is the same as ours or else. Remember, society fears and abuses people who do not conform. Moreover, we fear and abuse people who do not conform to Defamer Australia’s personal beliefs. It must be something we learned from the past eleven years of Government or something.
Defamer Australia reader Dave B commented yesterday “So if catchy & rhyming don’t matter anymore, can we just say ‘ho’
and leave out the ‘hum’; already outta my head, sorry to Kyles/the
gays/etc” but he is VERY WRONG, as much as we love him. Trust us.
In other music news, tomorrow we will be giving away SOMETHING related to Angie Hart. Melbourne readers should take note. Which pretty much means it’ll involve tickets to something in Melbourne. Perhaps a concert? Perhaps… TWO CONCERTS? Erm, we think we pretty much spelt it out there but whatever. Prepare yourselves.
There may also be an interview with the woman herself depending on whether or not our bid for a vial of tranquiliser and a dart gun on Ebay works out or not. If so, we will definitely discuss the Kylie single with her, and we probably won’t talk about Kelly Street. Or maybe we will. YOU’LL JUST HAVE TO REFRESH WILDLY FROM AROUND 11AM AND HOPE FOR THE BEST, WON’T YOU? More » 
YouTube Clip Of The Day
5:12PM Jess McGuire | When most people hear the term “blogger”, they think “saddo internet freak with a strong narcissistic streak and too much time on their hands”. Being bloggers ourselves, we can confirm that this is totally correct. AND YET HERE WE ALL ARE, SO WHO IS LAUGHING NOW WORLD? World: “Us, as we gallivant in the sunshine and revel in the non-virtual delights of life.“ Touche. In any case, there are rare – extremely rare – exceptions to this rule. One of those exceptions goes by the name of Gabriel Delahaye and blogs at a delightful corner of the web known as Corporate Casual. He looks like this. When we sent a link to his site and an accompanying photo to “celebrity blogger” (Triple J presenter Robbie Buck’s words) Ms Fits a few months back, her reply was the email equivalent of the sound of drooling. And fair enough too. IN ANY CASE, LET US MOVE ON AFTER AN INAPPROPRIATE AMOUNT OF OGLING. Mr Coprorate Casual and his fine associate Max Silvestri have created a marvellous YouTube clip called “Gabe and Max’s Internet Thing” and it made us chuckle heartily. Enjoy. More »
Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Starts Tour, Eats Maccas, Doesn’t Change Clothes; Rinse, Repeat
1:20PM Clem Bastow | Not content to fly in the face of the fashion conscious by wearing her outfit twice, Winegums has now been seen getting about in the same ensemble three times!
Either she’s a grub, the paparazzi are lying and selling the same pics three days in a row, or she’s pulling a stunt like the time Our Rusty wore his lumberjack windcheater everywhere for three weeks; those were some good times!
Last night the singer was seen leaving her gig at Berlin’s Tempodrom concert hall hugging a large bag of potato chips, dressed in the same jeans and ballet pumps as the previous night.
Thankfully, Amy did change her top, but the rest of the outfit looked pretty much the same as the night before.
Give the girl a break – she’s just started a tour! Which, incidentally, was off to a shaky start when Winegums apparently fell over en route to the stage and then forgot the words to her opening two songs (she then got it back on track).
Hopefully this minor stumble is just a passing glitch and not the result of Pete Doherty’s influence, who in worrying news is apparently keen to be BFF with Amy. We hope this is just gossip-mongering (though are also aware that a friendship between those two would also provide enough Winegums Watch fuel for, oh, about the next seventy two years). More » 
Betty Boo No Longer Doin’ The Do, Now Dishing The Dirt
1:11PM Clem Bastow | While it pains us to use the phrase “Remember Betty Boo?”, most would be unaware that life didn’t end after she dropped that pesky microphone. Boo, otherwise known as Alison Clarkson, has enjoyed some continuing success as a songwriter and with her own material.
When it comes to the former, however, it doesn’t look like she’s in a hurry to work with Girls Aloud’s Cheryl Cole any time soon, telling the Mirror that the experience, which was rather unsavoury, was over before it had even begun.
“I was asked if I would be involved in some of her solo stuff,” she explained. “So of course when that was put to her, she hadn’t heard anything about it and accused me of lying and said I needed the publicity or something like that.
“I thought it was hilarious and a bit upsetting actually ‘cos it wasn’t like that at all. So I spat back – that’s the way I am.”
It’s true, Boo does have new material out at the moment, but really, them’s fightin’ words from Ms Cole, who is no stranger to the publicity machine herself! More » 
A Current Affair Incurs The Hellish Wrath Of The Smiling Supermodel
12:58PM Clem Bastow | As far as network politics go, it’s probably safe to say that doing a current affairs number on one of your regular star guest presenters is probably about a good a move as, say, letting Eddie McGuire bone you.
Well, congratulations to A Current Affair, then, who thought it would be a good idea to do one of their magical “news” pieces on model Megan Gale, who regularly appears in a guest capacity on the show. Pity they didn’t check the facts with Megan herself before airing it, then.
Megan Gale’s working relationship with Channel 9 has been thrown into jeopardy following the interview A Current Affair aired about the Aussie model on Monday night.
Gale and her management felt disappointed and exploited by the angle the program took with the interview, which was heavily promoted to be a bitchy battle of the babes – with Gale attacking her Myer rival Jennifer Hawkins.
Confidential understands the leggy brunette feels the segment – billed as a juicy exclusive – was “taken out of context”, with her publicity team even attempting to have the ACA promos pulled before the show aired.
Not only that, but David Jones – whose advertising dollars are no doubt appreciated by the network – are also fuming, as the program implied Gale would be leaving their long-running promotional partnership to pursue her cosmetics business more intently.
We thought we’d be dead and buried before we saw the day ACA presented a shoddily researched story where ‘massaging the data’ was the order of the day, but it looks like we’re eating our words now! More » 
News Ltd Slightly Confused By Rise Of Lolpoliticians
12:47PM Clem Bastow | First News Ltd were totally befuddled by the LOLcats phenomenon, now they seem to be attempting to “get jiggy with it” once more – this time shining a light on the Greens-led “LOLpoliticians” craze.
We’re not sure which is more tragicomic – the opening precis, “John Howard can has cheezburger as well, with Australian bloggers progressing from the LOLcats phenomenon to tackling the Prime Minister”, or the sad little caption tacked onto the illustrating image:
Never has the phrase “LOL …” so accurately captured the utter bewilderment of the baby boomers and less-tech-savvy Gen Xers. It’s not so much a laugh out loud as a cry in the dark. More » Ellen DeGeneres’s Scrappy Lapdog Meltdown
8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | There would be no dancing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show today, not when the preternaturally upbeat talk show host offered a rare glimpse inside her tortured, pet-lover’s soul: Through deep sobs, she relayed the shocking and sad story of Iggy, a Brussels Griffon mix she adopted from an unnamed local shelter (news reports later revealed it to be the Mums & Mutts rescue in Pasadena). More »Tyra’s Foolproof Test For Rooting Out The Gays
7:30AM Defamer Hollywood | As Oprah bores us with Jerry Seinfeld’s wife and her devious methods of burying creamed broccoli inside a powdered donut, Tyra manages to bring Americans news they can use: Ladies, the next time your dinner date spends an inordinate amount of time quoting Kathy Griffin and apologising for his shameful lack of abs, use this simple finger-measuring technique to determine whether or not he may in fact be a Friend of O’Malley. And if you want a second opinion, there’s always the hair whorl test. The Tyra Banks Show More »
Britney Spears Booked For Hit-And-Run Incident, Awaits Appointment Of Court-Ordered Parking Coach
7:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Accompanied by the usual retinue of paparazzi photographers and local news crews that document her every frappuccino run, conspicuously public lunch date, and spur-of-the-moment shopping trip to the Neglected Baby Gap, embattled onetime popstar Britney Spears reported to the Van Nuys police station under the cover of darkness last night to be booked for her failure to leave a “Sorry, y’all, I’m bad at parking!” note on the car she struck in a Petco parking lot back in August. The routine processing unfolded without incident, according to a police spokesperson whose description of his experience with Spears recalls the vague pride of a pet owner whose Chihuahua successfully evacuated its bowels outside of the house for the first time: “She was fine, cooperative,” [Officer Mike] Lopez said. “She did her business and came out.” More »
